This document contains sample interview questions related to assessing a candidate's communication skills. The questions cover topics such as communicating information to others, handling misinformation, examples of effective and ineffective communication on project teams, rating their own communication abilities, their preferred work communication styles, necessary elements for effective organizational communication, withholding information from reports, dealing with uncommunicative bosses, and developing relationships in new workplaces.

1. Communication skills
interview questions

2. Feel free to use these job interview questions in your own candidate interviews.
• Why are you here today participating in this interview?
• You attend a weekly staff meeting with your supervisor. How have you ensured, in the past, that the
information you have received is communicated to your reporting staff and coworkers?
• Information that you believe is untrue or confidential has reached you via the grapevine. What actions
have you taken in the past to take care of situations such as this when communication is out of control?
• Give me an example, from your past work experiences, about a time when you were part of a project or
team and you never knew what was happening with the other action items or participants. How did you
handle this situation?
• Rate your communication skills on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 representing excellent communication skills.
Give me three examples from your past work experiences that demonstrate the selected number is
accurate.
• What's surprised you about our interview process so far?
• Describe the work environment or culture and the communication style it uses in which you experience
the most success.
• Describe five things about the communication within an organization that must be present for you to
work most effectively?
• How often do you believe it is necessary to withhold information from staff members who report to you?
Would you say you do this regularly, not often, or never? Under what circumstances do you limit
communication in your experience?
• When you have had a boss, in the past, who failed to adequately communicate with you, how have you
handled this?
• When you have entered a new workplace in the past, describe how you have gone about meeting and
developing relationships with your new coworkers, supervisors, and reporting staff.